Attention: Paris Hilton is in Australia and even though we haven’t seen her for 10 years she hasn’t changed at all.
Sorry. Just had to get that out of the way.
The 35-year-old socialite, DJ and businesswoman appeared on Thursday night’s episode of The Project to discuss her new perfume and the US presidency… but mostly her perfume.
Things got awkward, however, when Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald started to ask Hilton about her relationship status. “I’m very single,” she said, when Fitzy joked about having a few mates who were wondering.
But then he asked her something very specific.
"This is an old flame, but I'd just love to know..." he started. "Do you keep in contact with Millsy, Robert Mills? Remember, Millsy?"
Her response could not have been more blank. It was like the moment Mariah Carey was asked about Jennifer Lopez and maintained, "I don't know her."
Hilton just looked like she had never in her life heard of anyone called Robert... or Millsy... and certainly not 'Robert Mills.'
She continued to shake her head, said "No," and then looked to the audience to shrug.
That's some serious shade GURL.
Of course, Paris Hilton and Rob Mills had a fling in 2003, when Hilton was in Sydney. Late last year Mills told Em Rusciano they met at an Opera House after-party for the Australian Idol finale, and "hooked up" at an after-after party at Osher Gunsberg's house.
He was infamously snapped the next morning when he stepped out onto the balcony of Hilton's hotel room.
They continued to spend time together for the two weeks she was in the country, and they met up again a year later when Hilton visited Australia.
...But do you want to know the most awkward thing about this whole debacle?
On Thursday night, Rob Mills' MUM was in the AUDIENCE of The Project. Co-host Peter Helliar shared a post on Instagram about the moment he came to that realisation.
Captioning a photo of the audience, he wrote: "the woman sitting behind them trying to avoid being in shot is none other than the MUM of MILLSY!!"
"We only found out after this pic was taken and after Paris had left. Totally coincidental."
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I remember Millsy being on TV at some point (on The Chaser maybe? Something like that) and singing an actual SONG about his hookup with Paris. Anyway he was implying, publicly, and through song, that she was an airhead... "There's nothing there," he sang, referring to her brain. It was all very mean, bitter, and ungentlemanly. So really, I understand why she'd pretend to not know him; I'd probably do exactly the same thing in her situation.
Found the clip, it was on Spicks and Specks:
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Millsy wouldn't shut up about it and made numerous jokes in public about his one night stand with Paris for years after it happened. What a gentleman! I'm no fan of Paris but that question was seriously rude. A male celebrity would never have been asked if he remembered the name of a one night stand that took place many many years before. Why do we tolerate men trying to publicly humiliate women like this?